Poverty knowledge : social science, social policy, and the poor in twentieth-century U.S. history / Alice O'Connor.
2001
HC110.P6 O33 2001 (Mapit)
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Title
Poverty knowledge : social science, social policy, and the poor in twentieth-century U.S. history / Alice O'Connor.
Author
O'Connor, Alice, 1958-
ISBN
0691009171 (alk. paper)
9780691009179 (alk. paper)
0691102554
9780691102559
9780691009179 (alk. paper)
0691102554
9780691102559
Imprint
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2001.
Language
English
Description
xi, 373 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number
HC110.P6 O33 2001
Summary
"Alice O'Connor chronicles a transformation in the study of poverty, from a reform-minded inquiry into the political economy of industrial capitalism to a detached, highly technical analysis of the demographic and behavioral characteristics of the poor. Along the way, she uncovers the origins of several controversial concepts, including the "culture of poverty" and the "underclass." She shows how such notions emerged not only from trends within the social sciences, but from the central preoccupations of twentieth-century American liberalism: economic growth, the Cold War against communism, the changing fortunes of the welfare state, and the enduring racial divide.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
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Table of Contents
Origins: poverty and social science in the era of progressive reform
Poverty knowledge as cultural critique: the Great Depression
From the Deep South to the dark ghetto: poverty knowledge, racial liberalism, and cultural "pathology"
Giving birth to a "culture of poverty": poverty knowledge in postwar behavioral science, culture, and ideology
Community action
In the midst of plenty: the political economy of poverty in the affluent society
Fighting poverty with knowledge: the Office of Economic Opportunity and the analytic revolution in government
Poverty's culture wars
The poverty research industry
Dependency, the "underclass," and a new welfare "consensus": poverty knowledge for a post-liberal, postindustrial era
The end of welfare and the case for a new poverty knowledge.
Poverty knowledge as cultural critique: the Great Depression
From the Deep South to the dark ghetto: poverty knowledge, racial liberalism, and cultural "pathology"
Giving birth to a "culture of poverty": poverty knowledge in postwar behavioral science, culture, and ideology
Community action
In the midst of plenty: the political economy of poverty in the affluent society
Fighting poverty with knowledge: the Office of Economic Opportunity and the analytic revolution in government
Poverty's culture wars
The poverty research industry
Dependency, the "underclass," and a new welfare "consensus": poverty knowledge for a post-liberal, postindustrial era
The end of welfare and the case for a new poverty knowledge.